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New app for Mac SmartSDR and MacLoggerDX users: FlexSpotBridge

K3CDY
K3CDY Member ✭✭✭
edited March 24 in SmartSDR for Mac

There's a SmartSDR for Windows feature that's missing from Mac SmartSDR. Namely, clicking on a spot does not send that spot information from the app to your logging program.

I use the popular MacLoggerDX (MLDX), and simply wanted to click a spot, and squirt that to MLDX, which would do a lookup. (I'm lazy and type as little as possible.)

This is now possible with FlexSpotBridge for macOS. It's a small standalone companion app that bridges the Mac SmartSDR → MacLoggerDX gap, amongst other things, including:

  • Optional automatic mode switching based on band-plan ranges
  • Optional duplicate-spot cleanup using a configurable duplicate frequency threshold (Hz)
  • Optional Auto-Dupe Elimination Threshold to mirror the current Flex filter bandwidth
  • Optional automatic removal of old spots by age
  • Custom spot colors and backgrounds, configurable based on age
  • Clickable color swatches with native macOS color picker integration
  • Independent toggles for updating spot text color and background color
  • GUI window with live log output
  • User-adjustable settings (radio IP/port and behavior toggles)
  • Menu bar integration with Preferences and Clear All Spots (⌘L)

Here's a couple screenshots:

main-window.png preferences.png

It's free and available here: https://github.com/williamscody/FlexSpotBridge

Build instructions for an executable app are in the Readme. Created using Visual Studio Code + GitHub CoPilot.

Comments

  • KD0RC
    KD0RC Member, Super Elmer Moderator

    WOW - Nicely done Bill!

  • ct1drb
    ct1drb Member ✭✭

    Hello all,

    I hope everyone well.

    I followed instructions to compile app and I am not lucky, when I double-click I get following information:

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    In command line I get following information:

    ct1drb@Mac-mini FlexSpotBridge % dist/FlexSpotBridge.app 

    zsh: permission denied: dist/FlexSpotBridge.app

    ct1drb@Mac-mini FlexSpotBridge % 

    Computer is a Mac mini M4 with macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 (a).

    Best 73 es tks.

    CT1DRB/OK8RB

    David Quental